apskip, I appreciate your efforts, but I know TAR 1 didn't go to Russia, it went to Italy.

What I was getting at was that until the changes in/after TAR 12 that reduced the number of NELs, those usually occured in the first leg of two consecutive legs in a country. I keep notes too, but I hadn't correlated my notes of team leg placements by country.

What I was trying to do was speculate on a possible twist in Dubai that would catch the Racers and the viewer by surprise and still have us down to six teams after Dubai consistent with the spoiler information. I don't have anything to point to other than instinct, but I think it's worth throwing that idea out there.

apskip, I appreciate your efforts, but I know TAR 1 didn't go to Russia, it went to Italy.

What I was getting at was that until the changes in/after TAR 12 that reduced the number of NELs, those usually occured in the first leg of two consecutive legs in a country. I keep notes too, but I hadn't correlated my notes of team leg placements by country.

What I was trying to do was speculate on a possible twist in Dubai that would catch the Racers and the viewer by surprise and still have us down to six teams after Dubai consistent with the spoiler information. I don't have anything to point to other than instinct, but I think it's worth throwing that idea out there.

Well Thailand an elim leg --> NEL in Season 2, while Switzerland TAR 3 had BOTH legs as NELsl And as for the twist: unless it's a double elimination at one mat, please no.

AR10, ep. 3 and 4 in VietnamAR11 ep. 2 and 3 in ChileAR12 ep. 3 and 4 in Burkina FasoAR13 ep. 1 and 1 in BrazilAR14 ep. 4 and 5 in Siberia (Russia)AR15 ep. 2 and 3 in Vietnam

apskip, I think you meant Tunisia, not Russia for Season 1. Plus, you forgot the two Morocco legs in TAR 3 & wasn't the first China leg in TAR 6 an NEL that saved Adam/Rebecca?

Question: If teams are racing on a track, doing a desert task, visiting the Burj Dubai and doing winter tasks in Dubai 1, what ELSE can they be possibly doing for Dubai 2? More desert tasks? An eating challenge? Tasks outside of Dubai (probably in Sharjah)?

something like: "you're the first team to arrive, however, this leg is not over, and you're still racing..... you're the last team to arrive and unfortunately that means this leg is over for you, and so is this race."

That'd be a cool twist to see, something that everyone thinks is safe, but then still turns out to be an elimination point

apskip, I appreciate your efforts, but I know TAR 1 didn't go to Russia, it went to Italy.

What I was getting at was that until the changes in/after TAR 12 that reduced the number of NELs, those usually occured in the first leg of two consecutive legs in a country. I keep notes too, but I hadn't correlated my notes of team leg placements by country.

What I was trying to do was speculate on a possible twist in Dubai that would catch the Racers and the viewer by surprise and still have us down to six teams after Dubai consistent with the spoiler information. I don't have anything to point to other than instinct, but I think it's worth throwing that idea out there.

Well Thailand an elim leg --> NEL in Season 2, while Switzerland TAR 3 had BOTH legs as NELsl And as for the twist: unless it's a double elimination at one mat, please no.

AR10, ep. 3 and 4 in VietnamAR11 ep. 2 and 3 in ChileAR12 ep. 3 and 4 in Burkina FasoAR13 ep. 1 and 1 in BrazilAR14 ep. 4 and 5 in Siberia (Russia)AR15 ep. 2 and 3 in Vietnam

apskip, I think you meant Tunisia, not Russia for Season 1. Plus, you forgot the two Morocco legs in TAR 3 & wasn't the first China leg in TAR 6 an NEL that saved Adam/Rebecca?

Question: If teams are racing on a track, doing a desert task, visiting the Burj Dubai and doing winter tasks in Dubai 1, what ELSE can they be possibly doing for Dubai 2? More desert tasks? An eating challenge? Tasks outside of Dubai (probably in Sharjah)?

Note the number of common letters (4) between Russia and Tunisia. I did mean Tunisia but sometimes it is difficult near midnight to decipher what I had written down earlier. Thanks for the catch, the schnauzers and Raymond. I will alter my table.

Raymond, I understand your comment on the Morocco legs in AR3. However, I do not look at the leg starting Cabo de Roca Portugal and continuing with Dieselgate through Spain and across on the ferry to Algeciras and then continuing from Tangier to Fez as a Moroccan leg even though the pit stop was in Morocco.

Raymond, you are correct that leg 10 of AR6 in China was non-elimination, which means there was no applicable back-to-back elimination episodes in the same country in AR6. Oh, well, I guess we can all survive that news.

I still think that hood could be a short form for neighborhood, it would be easier to spoil if we know for certain who said it... that would be very boring.

I don't really care about spoiling about what happens at this point, unless:a) some team/s fall WAY behindb) it was spoiled to be one of Mika/Canaan/Lance/Keri who said the quote, which could determine who goes earlierc) it's actually an NEL, compared to what has been spoiled (VERY unlikely, but who knows really?)

Good catch, Slowhatch! Until I saw your link I thought, "Jumeirah?! Again?! This is getting close to beating the Macau Tower! (TAR 11, TARI 1, TARA 3)", but then I realized that going up the slide, the stairs were narrower, the top platform was smaller (the one Mika is walking around on panicking), there were dolphins (cool really) and the bar thing Cheyne let go of was longer. (Yeah, I am aware I may exaggerate the little details. )

I can't swim and could feel Mikas pain . .when my mom sent me to the YWCA when I was a child the one lady tried to force me like Canaan is forcing Mika, good thing my mom caught her ... thanks to my screaming